Questions are beginning to emerge about who exactly is behind the WikiLeaks operation. From whom is it's founder, Julian Assange, receiving all these classified documents: U.S. government insiders, Israeli intelligence, or some other unknown faction?
Two stories have just emerged that both point to Israel...
Wikileaks The Tel Aviv Connection
By Jeff Gates
WikiLeaks, A Touch of Assange and the Stench of AIPAC
By Gordon Duff
Veterans Today
20101129
Who precisely is attacking the world?
Why is it that the truth-tellers are always attacked? Shouldn't they be lauded as heroes instead? And is this the moral example that our leaders should be setting?
Who precisely is attacking the world?
Paul Craig Roberts
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Who precisely is attacking the world?
Paul Craig Roberts
The stuck pigs are squealing. To shift the onus from the US State Department, Hillary Clinton paints Wikileaks' release of the "diplomatic cables" as an "attack on the international community". To reveal truth is equivalent in the eyes of the US government to an attack on the world.
It is Wikileaks' fault that all those US diplomats wrote a quarter of a million undiplomatic messages about America's allies, a.k.a., puppet states. It is also Wikileaks' fault that a member of the US government could no longer stomach the cynical ways in which the US government manipulates foreign governments to serve, not their own people, but American interests, and delivered the incriminating evidence to Wikileaks.
The US government actually thinks that it was Wikileaks' patriotic duty to return the evidence and to identify the leaker. After all, we mustn't let the rest of the world find out what we are up to. They might stop believing our lies.
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20101128
Humankinds' Elemental Birthrights
Every human being has the natural right to the use of the four elements--earth, water, air, and fire-to live. Those who, from motives of profit or control, deprive others of their birthright do not understand that to take, and take, and take, far beyond their actual needs, places them in opposition to that substance, that energy from which we are all made, which is universal Love; and that inherent in that energy is balance, expressed over time, as the Law of Karma. The organizations and tactics of those who take far more than they need must be eliminated before the promise of the new age can become reality.
Russia and China Dump the Dollar
As the web bots correctly predicted, November would be the start of a major tipping point. A Chinese missile launch off the coast of California, Ang San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest, Eric Cantona's call for a massive run on the banks, North Korea's missile attack on the South, a renewed European economic crisis (Ireland), and the stark reality that paying off a MERs mortgage will never result in free-and-clear title to the property coming to light are just some of the major markers that are tipping the scale as we head into 2011. Now this...
The Stench of US Economic Decay: Russia and China Dump the US Dollar
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research
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The Stench of US Economic Decay: Russia and China Dump the US Dollar
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research
On Thanksgiving eve the English language China Daily and People’s Daily Online reported that Russia and China have concluded an agreement to abandon the use of the US dollar in their bilateral trade and to use their own currencies in its place. The Russians and Chinese said that they had taken this step in order to insulate their economies from the risks that have undermined their confidence in the US dollar as a world reserve currency.
This is big news, especially for the news dead Thanksgiving holiday period, but I did not see it reported on Bloomberg, CNN, New York Times or anywhere in the US print or TV media. The ostrich’s head remains in the sand.
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20101119
An International Bank Run on December 7th
An international backlash is developing in the form of a coordinated bank run that will take place globally on December 7, 2010. The U.S. website for this growing peoples' movement explains why and how; a reprint from their homepage is below. This is likely to be the only successful way to confront the Dark Forces' power on the material level. Your participation is requested.
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Are you fed up with the unchecked fraud, greed and seemingly-unlimited power of the major banks?
You are not alone! Citizens from across the globe are infuriated by the corrupt banking system.
On December 7, 2010 the PEOPLE take back their power!
Join the millions of banking customers around the world who will be peacefully withdrawing their money from major banks in a coordinated, global effort.
If you do your banking with BANK OF AMERICA, CHASE, WACHOVIA, WELLS FARGO, CITIBANK, US BANK, SUNTRUST BANK, NATIONAL CITY BANK, MORGAN STANLEY, UNION BANK, UBS, MORGAN STANLEY, GOLDMAN SACHS, BRANCH BANKING & TRUST, REGIONS BANK, COMERICA, PNC BANKS or any of these other major banks -- pull your money out and put it with a local, regional bank or a community credit union instead.
The FACTS:
- It is the banks who own and corrupt the political process in America today.
- It is the banks who fund war and oppression across the Globe.
- It is the banks who launder the lions share of black-market drug trafficking money.
- It is the banks who fund corporations that are offshoring our jobs.
- It is the banks who took taxpayer bailouts and still won't lend, protecting the wealth of their shareholders instead.
- In spite of the bailouts, BIG bank CEOs continue to rake in massive bonuses and salaries.
- It is the banks WHO CREATED THE MORTGAGE MESS AND DESTROYED THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.
Your home, your job, or your business is now probably gone or on the edge due to the inordinate power and control that the global banks have over all of us today.
NOW is the time for all sovereign people to strip the power from the BANKS.
There is no need to protest in the streets or take time off from work to make a difference. All you need to do is go to your local bank branch on December 7 and politely say to the teller: "I'd like to close my account today." That's it! It's simple, painless, and powerful. In this way, the People can send a very powerful yet peaceful message to the Elites that WE are in charge.
World-Famous soccer star and actor Eric Cantona (Manchester United / 'Elizabeth') got it absolutely right when he said the following:
Hear more from his recent TV interview:
On December 7th, we are calling for a massive, non-violent public response to the banking cabal that has collapsed our economies and thrown us out of our homes and into the unemployment lines
Enough is enough!
Thoughtful, peaceful resistance is what our movement is all about.
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Are you fed up with the unchecked fraud, greed and seemingly-unlimited power of the major banks?
You are not alone! Citizens from across the globe are infuriated by the corrupt banking system.
On December 7, 2010 the PEOPLE take back their power!
Join the millions of banking customers around the world who will be peacefully withdrawing their money from major banks in a coordinated, global effort.
If you do your banking with BANK OF AMERICA, CHASE, WACHOVIA, WELLS FARGO, CITIBANK, US BANK, SUNTRUST BANK, NATIONAL CITY BANK, MORGAN STANLEY, UNION BANK, UBS, MORGAN STANLEY, GOLDMAN SACHS, BRANCH BANKING & TRUST, REGIONS BANK, COMERICA, PNC BANKS or any of these other major banks -- pull your money out and put it with a local, regional bank or a community credit union instead.
The FACTS:
- It is the banks who own and corrupt the political process in America today.
- It is the banks who fund war and oppression across the Globe.
- It is the banks who launder the lions share of black-market drug trafficking money.
- It is the banks who fund corporations that are offshoring our jobs.
- It is the banks who took taxpayer bailouts and still won't lend, protecting the wealth of their shareholders instead.
- In spite of the bailouts, BIG bank CEOs continue to rake in massive bonuses and salaries.
- It is the banks WHO CREATED THE MORTGAGE MESS AND DESTROYED THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.
Your home, your job, or your business is now probably gone or on the edge due to the inordinate power and control that the global banks have over all of us today.
NOW is the time for all sovereign people to strip the power from the BANKS.
There is no need to protest in the streets or take time off from work to make a difference. All you need to do is go to your local bank branch on December 7 and politely say to the teller: "I'd like to close my account today." That's it! It's simple, painless, and powerful. In this way, the People can send a very powerful yet peaceful message to the Elites that WE are in charge.
Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of noncooperation is built.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi
World-Famous soccer star and actor Eric Cantona (Manchester United / 'Elizabeth') got it absolutely right when he said the following:
What does it mean to demonstrate in these days? Nothing. Demonstrations in the streets are for the deluded. They lead to unnecessary violence, and place energies out in universe that accomplish nothing except to further the aims of the oppressors.
Humans need to remain centered in the Now -- as Humans -- and to take effective action from a Human perspective. We engage and remove the oppressive system not by trying to bludgeon it down, but by deflating it.
Simple human actions can cripple collective systems easily.
Humans need to remain centered in the Now -- as Humans -- and to take effective action from a Human perspective. We engage and remove the oppressive system not by trying to bludgeon it down, but by deflating it.
Simple human actions can cripple collective systems easily.
Hear more from his recent TV interview:
On December 7th, we are calling for a massive, non-violent public response to the banking cabal that has collapsed our economies and thrown us out of our homes and into the unemployment lines
Enough is enough!
Thoughtful, peaceful resistance is what our movement is all about.
20101118
A Major Turning Point
A Major Turning Point
A Call for Action
We have reached a major turning point in the battle between Light and Darkness. The Dark Forces have now devised and accumulated great physical, monetary and psychological power. They are even now able to artificially induce earthquakes as demonstrated in Haiti and Chile and thus have the means to threaten any resistant country or peoples into compliance with their dastardly plans for world domination. Other highly destructive military and psychological technologies are in their hands, a gift of ET forces working in cooperation with them. These threatening technologies are backed by growing private and public security ground forces designed to keep in check any form of civilian resistance.
Yet, like David against Goliath, mankind still holds the key to thwarting these dark plots and activities. That key is thought . Every action on the earth plane starts with a thought. Without thought, nothing can materialize or manifest. As the light forces on earth working with the Master St. Germain, we are unarmed and physically incapable of resisting the preponderant physical force of the Dark Forces. Yet all of us, lightbearers especially, can train the cosmic energy behind cosmic law to resist or thwart the actions of the Dark Forces. Events that are destined to play out karmically, such as the coming World War, can be hastened and brought to a rapid conclusion in the same manner.
The Sanctus Germanus Foundation directs truth to all actions of the Dark Forces in its ongoing project to seed the mass consciousness. These seed thoughts are published on this website weekly. We invite all lightbearers to use these thought-forms in their daily meditations to help seed the mass consciousness with the truth and thus weaken and derail all dark force plots to subject the earth to their regime. We also welcome more suggestions of seed thoughts.
Just as David brought down the giant Goliath with a small pebble, we, as lightbearers, can do the same from our humble abodes through contemplation and meditation. We own the earth's most powerful weapons--thoughts laden with truth.
The Amanuensis
www.sanctusgermanus.net
20101115
7 Ways to Transform Banking
7 Ways to Transform Banking
Each of us can help build a resilient financial system that will serve real people in real communities.
by Fran Korten
YES! Magazine
Are you as outraged as I am by the Wall Street bankers with their fat bonuses, shoddy mortgages, and financial shenanigans? With the gridlock in Washington, I wanted to know what “we the people” can do to turn our fury into constructive action. So I turned to my friend Jared Gardner for advice. Jared comes from the financial industry and thinks hard and well about how to change the system.
Here are seven things I gleaned from my discussion with Jared about what we can each do to build a resilient financial system that will serve real people in real communities.
Move your money.
You may have heard about the Move Your Money campaign. The idea is to move your deposits from a Wall Street bank to a community bank or a local credit union. This is a terrific first step to keep the banksters from playing games with your money. Check out Green America's Community Investing website for ideas on what to do.
Move your debt.
Don’t stop with just moving your deposits. Move your debt. It’s in servicing debt that banks make the big money. So if you have a credit card, a car loan, or a mortgage, consider moving them. Find someone at your local bank or credit union who can help you review your debt and see what you could move to a local institution. Your interest payments can build your local economy instead of fattening those Wall Street bonuses.
Persuade your institutions.
Do you belong to a church, synagogue, mosque, or temple? How about the place where you work? Or a club or nonprofit where you are a member? All of these institutions likely have money and debt. Talk with the leadership about where they do their banking and encourage them to explore what they could move to a local bank. The First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon is considering moving its entire banking relationship from a Wall Street bank to a local bank. And the Responsible Endowments Coalition is urging colleges and universities to do the same. We need to follow these examples and make this a nation-wide movement.
Advocate a state-owned bank.
Sadly for the nation, North Dakota stands alone in having a state-owned bank. But that may change. Ellen Brown reports that five states now have pending legislation to create state-owned banks, and more are studying the possibility. The advantages are tremendous. The Bank of North Dakota has kept credit flowing throughout the financial crisis. More important, the state bank keeps community banks thriving. North Dakota has more community banks per capita than any other state in the union. Those community banks serve local businesses, which in turn generate local jobs—a winning strategy in a job-starved market. According to Brown, last year North Dakota had the lowest unemployment rate in the country.
Form or join a group.
Working with others keeps motivation high. One good option is a Common Security Club. Chapters are forming in communities across the country. Members find ways to help each other with financial difficulties, discuss the roots of the economic crisis, and advocate policies that will turn the system around.
Learn more.
The New Rules Project has a community banking initiative that’s a font of current information on breakthroughs for community banking. Ellen Brown provides regular insights into openings for transforming the banking system. Oregonians for a State Bank is developing allies across the political spectrum who want to strengthen their local economy. And the YES! Magazine website provides a steady stream of stories that spotlight the actions people are taking to build a new economy.
Share these ideas.
People of all political stripes are furious with the Wall Street banks. But they don’t know what to do. So tell everyone you know what you’re doing and why. And share this list. Together we can build a force strong enough to transform the banking system to one that will work for us all.
Fran Korten wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Fran is YES! Magazine's publisher. Jared Gardner is co-chair of Oregonians for a State Bank and can be reached at OregonStateBank[at]gmail[dot]com.
Interested?
* 31 Ways to Jump-Start the Local Economy: How to build a secure, sustainable economy at home and in your community.
* A New Deal for Local Economies: More local, durable economies are already taking root. How can we help them along?
* New Economy, New Way to Do Finance: As mega-finance crumbles, many farsighted individuals are putting their money in enterprises and financial institutions that benefit working Americans and the places they live.
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Each of us can help build a resilient financial system that will serve real people in real communities.
by Fran Korten
YES! Magazine
Are you as outraged as I am by the Wall Street bankers with their fat bonuses, shoddy mortgages, and financial shenanigans? With the gridlock in Washington, I wanted to know what “we the people” can do to turn our fury into constructive action. So I turned to my friend Jared Gardner for advice. Jared comes from the financial industry and thinks hard and well about how to change the system.
Here are seven things I gleaned from my discussion with Jared about what we can each do to build a resilient financial system that will serve real people in real communities.
Move your money.
You may have heard about the Move Your Money campaign. The idea is to move your deposits from a Wall Street bank to a community bank or a local credit union. This is a terrific first step to keep the banksters from playing games with your money. Check out Green America's Community Investing website for ideas on what to do.
Move your debt.
Don’t stop with just moving your deposits. Move your debt. It’s in servicing debt that banks make the big money. So if you have a credit card, a car loan, or a mortgage, consider moving them. Find someone at your local bank or credit union who can help you review your debt and see what you could move to a local institution. Your interest payments can build your local economy instead of fattening those Wall Street bonuses.
Persuade your institutions.
Do you belong to a church, synagogue, mosque, or temple? How about the place where you work? Or a club or nonprofit where you are a member? All of these institutions likely have money and debt. Talk with the leadership about where they do their banking and encourage them to explore what they could move to a local bank. The First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon is considering moving its entire banking relationship from a Wall Street bank to a local bank. And the Responsible Endowments Coalition is urging colleges and universities to do the same. We need to follow these examples and make this a nation-wide movement.
Advocate a state-owned bank.
Sadly for the nation, North Dakota stands alone in having a state-owned bank. But that may change. Ellen Brown reports that five states now have pending legislation to create state-owned banks, and more are studying the possibility. The advantages are tremendous. The Bank of North Dakota has kept credit flowing throughout the financial crisis. More important, the state bank keeps community banks thriving. North Dakota has more community banks per capita than any other state in the union. Those community banks serve local businesses, which in turn generate local jobs—a winning strategy in a job-starved market. According to Brown, last year North Dakota had the lowest unemployment rate in the country.
Form or join a group.
Working with others keeps motivation high. One good option is a Common Security Club. Chapters are forming in communities across the country. Members find ways to help each other with financial difficulties, discuss the roots of the economic crisis, and advocate policies that will turn the system around.
Learn more.
The New Rules Project has a community banking initiative that’s a font of current information on breakthroughs for community banking. Ellen Brown provides regular insights into openings for transforming the banking system. Oregonians for a State Bank is developing allies across the political spectrum who want to strengthen their local economy. And the YES! Magazine website provides a steady stream of stories that spotlight the actions people are taking to build a new economy.
Share these ideas.
People of all political stripes are furious with the Wall Street banks. But they don’t know what to do. So tell everyone you know what you’re doing and why. And share this list. Together we can build a force strong enough to transform the banking system to one that will work for us all.
Fran Korten wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Fran is YES! Magazine's publisher. Jared Gardner is co-chair of Oregonians for a State Bank and can be reached at OregonStateBank[at]gmail[dot]com.
Interested?
* 31 Ways to Jump-Start the Local Economy: How to build a secure, sustainable economy at home and in your community.
* A New Deal for Local Economies: More local, durable economies are already taking root. How can we help them along?
* New Economy, New Way to Do Finance: As mega-finance crumbles, many farsighted individuals are putting their money in enterprises and financial institutions that benefit working Americans and the places they live.
Source
20101113
November 24, 2010 is NATIONAL OPT-OUT DAY
A growing body of physicists are concerned that the "Full-body" millimeter wave scanners that are now being installed at airports around the world can actually damage your DNA. See also: Evidence to support the a priori hypothesis that Electromagnetic Radiation across the spectrum is a Ubiquitous Universal Genotoxic Carcinogen by Dr. Neil Cherry.
If the loss of Freedom that the Dark Forces are foisting upon us with this wasn't bad enough, now they actually intend for humankind to become irreparably damaged!
Fortunately, an OPT-OUT movement is growing. Those who are concerned about the potential dangers of this technology are calling on everyone who will be using air travel on November 24th to OPT-OUT of the full-body airport scans.
To find out more about this resistance against the Dark Forces, read on...
It's the day ordinary citizens stand up for their rights, stand up for liberty, and protest the federal government's desire to virtually strip us naked or submit to an "enhanced pat down" that touches people's breasts and genitals in an aggressive manner. You should never have to explain to your children, "Remember that no stranger can touch or see your private area, unless it's a government employee, then it's OK."
The goal of National Opt Out Day is to send a message to our lawmakers that we demand change. We have a right to privacy and buying a plane ticket should not mean that we're guilty until proven innocent. This day is needed because many people do not understand what they consent to when choosing to fly.
Who?
You, your family and friends traveling by air on Wednesday, November 24, 2010.
What?
National Opt-Out Day. You have the right to opt-out of the naked body scanner machines (AIT, or Advance Imaging Technology, as the government calls it). All you have to do is say "I opt out" when they tell you to go through one of the machines. You will then be given an "enhanced" pat down. Remember too, as the TSA says, "Everyday is opt-out day." That is, you can opt out any time you fly.
Where?
At an airport near you!
When?
Wednesday, November 24, 2010. We want families to sit around the dinner table, eating turkey, talking about their experience - what constitutes an unreasonable search, how forceful of a pat down will we allow, especially of children, and how much privacy are we will to give up? We hope the experience then propels people to write their Member of Congress and the airlines to demand change.
Why?
The government should not have the ability to virtually strip search anyone it wants. The problem is compounded in that if you do not want to go through the naked body scanner, the government has made the alternative perhaps worse! In an effort to try and make everyone comply with the scanners, the government has instituted "enhanced" pat downs. There are reports from travelers across the country about how the TSA now touches the genitals and private areas of men, women and children in a much more aggressive manner. We do not believe the government has a right to see you naked or aggressively feel you up just because you bought an airline ticket.
How?
By saying "I opt out" when told to go through the bodying imaging machines and submitting to a pat down. Also, be sure to have your pat down by TSA in full public - do not go to the back room when asked. Every citizen must see for themselves how the government treats law-abiding citizens.
follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/nationaloptout
For more information on these machines and to read stories of what happens when you use the naked body scanners or opt out, please visit:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-safety-security-222
http://www.dontscan.me
http://www.thousandsstandingaround.org
To file an incident report, use the Electronic Privacy Information Center's site:
http://epic.org/bodyscanner/incident_report/
contact us at admin@optoutday.com
If the loss of Freedom that the Dark Forces are foisting upon us with this wasn't bad enough, now they actually intend for humankind to become irreparably damaged!
Fortunately, an OPT-OUT movement is growing. Those who are concerned about the potential dangers of this technology are calling on everyone who will be using air travel on November 24th to OPT-OUT of the full-body airport scans.
To find out more about this resistance against the Dark Forces, read on...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 is NATIONAL OPT-OUT DAY!
It's the day ordinary citizens stand up for their rights, stand up for liberty, and protest the federal government's desire to virtually strip us naked or submit to an "enhanced pat down" that touches people's breasts and genitals in an aggressive manner. You should never have to explain to your children, "Remember that no stranger can touch or see your private area, unless it's a government employee, then it's OK."
The goal of National Opt Out Day is to send a message to our lawmakers that we demand change. We have a right to privacy and buying a plane ticket should not mean that we're guilty until proven innocent. This day is needed because many people do not understand what they consent to when choosing to fly.
Here are the details:
Who?
You, your family and friends traveling by air on Wednesday, November 24, 2010.
What?
National Opt-Out Day. You have the right to opt-out of the naked body scanner machines (AIT, or Advance Imaging Technology, as the government calls it). All you have to do is say "I opt out" when they tell you to go through one of the machines. You will then be given an "enhanced" pat down. Remember too, as the TSA says, "Everyday is opt-out day." That is, you can opt out any time you fly.
Where?
At an airport near you!
When?
Wednesday, November 24, 2010. We want families to sit around the dinner table, eating turkey, talking about their experience - what constitutes an unreasonable search, how forceful of a pat down will we allow, especially of children, and how much privacy are we will to give up? We hope the experience then propels people to write their Member of Congress and the airlines to demand change.
Why?
The government should not have the ability to virtually strip search anyone it wants. The problem is compounded in that if you do not want to go through the naked body scanner, the government has made the alternative perhaps worse! In an effort to try and make everyone comply with the scanners, the government has instituted "enhanced" pat downs. There are reports from travelers across the country about how the TSA now touches the genitals and private areas of men, women and children in a much more aggressive manner. We do not believe the government has a right to see you naked or aggressively feel you up just because you bought an airline ticket.
How?
By saying "I opt out" when told to go through the bodying imaging machines and submitting to a pat down. Also, be sure to have your pat down by TSA in full public - do not go to the back room when asked. Every citizen must see for themselves how the government treats law-abiding citizens.
follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/nationaloptout
For more information on these machines and to read stories of what happens when you use the naked body scanners or opt out, please visit:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-safety-security-222
http://www.dontscan.me
http://www.thousandsstandingaround.org
To file an incident report, use the Electronic Privacy Information Center's site:
http://epic.org/bodyscanner/incident_report/
contact us at admin@optoutday.com
20101112
Law of Retribution
We recognize that the Law of Retribution is in full force, in accord with world karma, with respect to world crises on the brink, including the mortgage crisis, the gold and silver crises, the currency war, the food crisis, the water crisis, the petroleum crisis, and any false flag attacks that may be staged.
20101110
God on the Table
Michael C. Ruppert is a voice that I know and trust. Since first meeting him in Los Angeles back in 1996 when he began lecturing on the CIA & Crack Cocaine connection, to the point he began writing about Peak Oil and economic collapse on his website FromTheWilderness.com, then on to the purchase of his exhaustively-researched book Crossing The Rubicon which exposed the links between 9/11, peak oil, geopolitics, narco-trafficking and militarism, to his big screen documentary debut in 2009's Collapse, and now to his current project the Collapse Network, his voice has always been on the mark. Although he's never been perfect at pinning dates on some of the major events that he said would happen, happen they did! I personally must thank Mr. Ruppert for helping to wake me up from the mass delusion that was being broadcast to all of humanity by teaching me how to "connect the dots" as to what was really going on. Because of this, I've been fortunate enough to help put myself and my family in a better position for the future.
With that, I am now going to direct your attention to a wonderful recent article that Mike has made available to the public. It is encouraging indeed to know that the former LAPD cop is now beginning to cover the spiritual truths that we will all need to integrate as we head into a time of great change and transformation.
GOD ON THE TABLE
Attempting A Useful Discussion of Mankind’s Spiritual Future
by
Michael C. Ruppert
© Copyright 2010, CollapseNet, Inc. Please Distribute Widely
November 1, 2010 – Arguably, the cause of the collapse of human industrial civilization has been a fundamental disconnect in consciousness that has led humankind to tell itself that it is exempt from the laws of physics and nature – that infinite growth is possible on a finite planet. That certainly defines the issue in terms of our survival because nothing less would permit continued expansion of human population and resource consumption.
Mankind is essentially expecting (or demanding) that technology overturn the laws of physics, chemistry and especially thermodynamics/energy. By definition, anything that can overturn natural laws is God. Under this construct, technology is, in fact, a religion. I think its, perhaps unwilling, “messiah” was René Descartes – the guy who said that empirical knowledge was the supreme knowledge (another disconnect) and therefore, by implication and application, the God of Knowing. This was a perfect mate for an infinite growth monetary paradigm and we are just awakening to the fact that its actual imperative is to kill us and all life on the planet.
Today we are awash in technology… and we are also dying. We are, in fact, killing ourselves with it. We make better weapons. We make better devices that require the extraction and consumption of more raw materials and then require us to throw away the energy and resources in old ones. We poison ourselves and our environment with chemicals and then we turn to chemistry to create drugs (using a lot of oil and energy) to imperfectly cure the diseases we ourselves created.
Having recognized that technology is essentially a religion we can also – without great emotional charge – say that technology can be judged as a religion to be either a success or failure; either outcome being measured by whether it adds to the health, longevity and survival of our species or hinders it.
I think the same tests are beginning to be applied to all religions. Soon they will be applied with a fury.
DOMINION -- THE FUNDAMENTAL DISCONNECT
An essential component of all of western (Abrahamic) religions is the theme of man’s “dominion” over the earth. That is the disconnect which is killing us. All other life obeys physical laws. In fact our so-called dominion depends on that. But we have believed, justified and acted as though we were exempt simply because we are “man”. This is a distinct difference between western religions and “eastern” religions like Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism which loosely place man as an integral part of – but not supreme – in a spiritual universe. If however, we consider the Church of Infinite Growth – as expressed through fiat currency, fractional reserve banking and compound interest – we see that Buddhist, Hindu and Taoist faiths have, by (to one degree or another) encouraging detachment from or acquiescence to the material world, not prevented their adherents from suffering the same fate as we Westerners. We’re all going down more or less together and no religion anywhere has spared its adherents from what’s taking place. While western religions preached the unsustainable and the impossible, eastern religions have acquiesced to infinite growth saying essentially that the spiritual world is more important and the physical realm can be discounted. -- So much for those belief systems. The Abrahamic religions offer the ultimate bailout if the books aren’t balanced here -- there’s always the Afterlife. I personally believe there is an afterlife, but not like this one. According to those following what Moses (allegedly) wrote, there has to be someone/thing to be rewarded and someone to be punished.
There’s an old saying that says that there are no atheists in foxholes. As the world marches headlong towards places that make foxholes look cozy, what will be demanded by humankind is a spiritual construct or cosmology that actually and tangibly deals with the crisis at hand.
I love a line I heard Bruce Springsteen deliver at a concert. “The Church of Rock and Roll doesn’t promise you life in the hereafter. The Church of Rock and Roll promises you life… right now!” – Cartesian science cannot measure heart and soul. Music and art most certainly do. That is why music and playing in my band New White Trash figure so prominently in my life now, just as music, dance and art did in the lives of our ancestors. And that is why CollapseNet will always encourage these as an essential part of Lifeboat building. Man indeed, does not live by bread alone.
A good question to ask then is, “Are there any spiritual practices which originate from and teach a way to live rightly and in balance with this world?” Is there an instruction manual that teaches us how to live here?
A THIRD VIEWPOINT – Meet Red Elk
Earth-based, native belief systems have never to my knowledge relied on printed and codified rules. A book cannot be an ultimate authority. The earth is. It is possible, however, to direct you to an indigenous elder named Red Elk who conveys, as clearly and as eloquently as I have ever seen, what I understand to be earth-based spirituality. I strongly encourage everyone to take the time to watch this short and poignant video which well-summarizes earth-based spiritual philosophies as I know them and what we ascribe to here at CollapseNet. [I urge the reader to stop and watch this wonderful video here and return to this essay.]
Indigenous Native American Prophecy
I am no expert on these beliefs, merely a beginning student. I remember once asking one of my teachers, Skip Mahawk, an elder of the Dakota Sioux in Oregon, if I had a chance of becoming a human being in the way indigenous spiritual traditions defined them – that is, people who lived in complete or near-complete harmony with nature and who had respect for the earth and for all living things. I have never seen a Native American laugh so hard
I have a lot to learn.
My limited experience and study has led me to believe that earth-based spiritual practices are rooted in the concept that God never made any mistakes. (Who’s going to argue with Him?) Somebody who knows please correct me if I’m wrong.
One of the greatest crimes, in my opinion, of Abrahamic religions has been to falsely associate earth-based faiths such as paganism and Wicca with devil worship. I just saw it again on a NATGEO Special and it made me cringe. My research shows that paganism, Wicca, the Druids and native/indigenous faiths (all centered on the earth and spirit rather than man) do not even recognize an Abrahamic devil, let alone worship one. I have not found one which looks for, or even recognizes, a “Number-One Bad Guy” with a nameplate on his desk.
The lie about earth-based religions was convenient because these spiritual practices stood in the way of “progress”, control, expansion and infinite growth. Calling pagans and Druids devil worshippers justified their slaughter in the eyes of misguided Christian theologians.
Even within the Abrahamic religions evidence can be found of an understanding of the perfection of creation. As an example of that, in the Old Testament book of Isaiah and the prophecy of Habakkuk appears the statement, “God’s eyes are too pure to behold iniquity.” -- There are no such things as iniquities in God’s world. How could there be? God, by definition, does not make mistakes. The universe that God created and which was described in John1 which says that God (the Word) created everything that was created and there was nothing that was not created by God.
What Abrahamic religions have done is to interpret that God won’t tolerate iniquities and that has been the rationale for all the abuses which have followed, “In the name of God I kill, loot, plunder, rape or exterminate you.” To tolerate something gives it existence and power.
I have experienced earth-based religions referring to good and bad or darkness and light but I have yet to encounter one that advocates an “overcoming” or final victory of one over the other. As with Taoism and Buddhism, what I have encountered thus far in my study and experience of earth-based spirituality is an emphasis on balance between the two on this plane and a loving acceptance or embrace of both as elements of a cyclical rhythm of existence, like the seasons; like day and night.
Essentially, humankind’s biggest and most-enduring spiritual activity -- living in an earth-based consciousness -- was as valuable (if not more so) to people as a flint, an axe, water, food or shelter. And it was treated as such.
So where does that leave us?
In the many successful 12-Step recovery programs, the Second Step says that we “came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” (12-Step programs originated from mystical teachings found in and common to almost every religion). And – distilled down – the only real things this step requires are a recognition that there actually is a power greater than us and that we (either as individuals or collectively) are not it. Those facts are already in evidence. What the step calls for is a conscious connection to that higher power and an appropriate (i.e. working) relationship with it.
What I am suggesting in this article is a simple concept: Healing the disconnect between ourselves and the rest of creation and the laws which govern this universe is an essential step in saving our own lives, perhaps all life on the planet. Throughout most of man’s history this cosmology was referred to as relating to the spirit world, in recognition of the fact that everything, whether animate or not, whether visible or not, has a spirit. In historical perspective, “religion” is a very new word. The concept of spirit is as old as mankind itself.
SEEING THE DISCONNECT MORE CLEARLY
Judging from the abundant evidence around us, not only have we taken exceptional and unjustifiable liberties with the construct of dominion, we have completely trashed our only source of life (the planet) in the process. At minimum, we have been disgraceful stewards and poor husbands.
A psychology experiment from the 1970s really unmasks the fundamental flaw that comes, I believe, with the Great Disconnect. In that study a group of well-adjusted, pre-screened college students from Stanford University were arbitrarily separated into prison guards and inmates. In relatively short order the situation deteriorated to the point where the experiment had to be terminated. Brutality, psychosis, breakdowns and a continued escalation of conflict required the expenditure of more and more physical and emotional resources until serious harm and injury was imminent… and chaos (entropy) the unavoidable and looming end result. What happened in this experiment is a compelling and a stark metaphor for the Great Disconnect as human industrial civilization flails helplessly, creating ever more chaos with every new solution it proposes. At this level of consciousness there are no solutions.
This study went sideways almost immediately. So did mankind’s internalization of the Great Disconnect which is essentially the knowledge of “good and evil” as described in Genesis 1. The difference is that there was always room to expand, start over, and deny. There were other lands to explore and conquer, people to exterminate, resources to use and plunder, all the while repeating the catechism, “We’ll get it right this time, or next time and we’ll be forgiven even if we don’t”… Not anymore.
This disconnect has severed our species in just the last few hundred years from the intuitive and innate wisdoms and philosophies that protected us as a species for our first two million years of existence. That’s a lot of stored up wisdom and experience that has been pushed aside… as if by an oil-powered bulldozer and a Rockefeller-owned printing press or a Murdoch-owned TV station. And that disconnect has been hugely reinforced and facilitated by the influence and power of organized western religions, namely Catholicism, Protestant Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
OK BUT WHAT ABOUT…?
Organized religion has been a major player in bringing us to this horrific crisis. The cozy co-existence between “religions”, politics and money is revealed pretty clearly if one steps back and examines the historical interactions with the leaders of these religions and the expansion of industrial civilization over the last four centuries. Let’s face it; Christianity has obviously had the best “business model”, but only in an infinite-growth paradigm.
Perhaps nowhere is this historical “coziness” revealed more starkly than in the almost-perfect alignment with Catholicism’s need to proselytize, expand and convert the heathens with Spain’s hunger for resources, territory and wealth from the 1400s through the 1800s. Protestant Britain’s ruthless oppression of pagans and Druids accomplished the same thing. The same can be said of American bible-thumpers who demonized native peoples and exterminated them “in the name of God” in North America in the 1800s, or the way in which Christian Evangelism worked hand-in-hand with the CIA and the Rockefeller family to colonize and subjugate Latin America.* And it is abundantly true of the emerging spiritual theme of the Tea Party movement which, according to several recent polls is populated by the same people who would burn the Koran and exterminate Muslims. Those same polls also showed that a dominant belief among Tea Party members was that the United States is a Christian nation.
As long as continued and wasteful expansion produced tangible, if imperfect and unequal “progress” that symbiotic partnership worked by enabling secular and clerical power elites to consolidate and enlarge their control and influence over… us, the people. I would include financial elites as a separate class in this trinity as well.
But as collapse unfolds and as religions fail to adapt to or address changing needs and circumstances, the flaws in mankind’s disconnect become more apparent and more manifest. We have now come full circle back to the imperative of having a cosmology that shows us how to get along in this world. The laws governing the physical universe are real limits to our self-indulgent behavior. They are real limits to growth. They have been a very effective, unbreachable and arguably essential playpen.
WHAT DOES COLLAPSENET OFFER?
The fundamental or non-negotiable truths of CollapseNet’s philosophy are articulated in our Compass Points. The Compass Points originate in the laws of physics, so I have complete confidence in their relevance to the world in which we live and their usefulness in helping as many people as possible (regardless of belief) to survive. I wrote them coming almost purely from a rational, rather than a spiritual perspective. And yet, as I look at them in the context of this article I see and feel how much they resonate and align with this spiritual belief which I also hold. I see and feel no disconnect, no division.
In our Lighthouse Directory you will see many entries for spirit-based teachings and resources. We will actively seek out and list ones that are earth-centered because of their direct relevance to and alignment with our Compass Points. We will not exclude any other religious or spiritual links on any basis unless they contradict the Compass Points. For example I would love to see a directory link to a black Baptist congregation in Manhattan I heard about that is actively preaching that its members must become debt-free as a part of their spiritual health. All we ask is that if one submits a link or article that reflects or supports a religious group or philosophy that you clearly identify it up front, as we have done here.
I have drawn a clear differential boundary here between spiritual beliefs that mandate living in conscious partnership with all of creation as the foundational step in sustainability. Those that promulgate humanity’s superiority to and division from the rest of creation are on the other side of that line. This, I believe, is a clear description of where we are going in the next step of our conscious and chosen evolution. This is not a step backward, because if we take the consciousness and knowledge attained through five centuries of Cartesian worship – rebalanced with the imperatives of partnership and respect – we will indeed be a “new and improved” species.
The bottom line to all this is that when and if mankind is able to free itself from the labels of good and evil, victor and vanquished, and especially the concepts of dominion and servitude, the only thing left to do with all things that exist in this universe will be to respect them.
20101107
You are a Human Being
The following text is from the home page at www.natural-person.ca We highly recommend that you visit this website and read it from front to back, as this is one of the many truths that will set you free from the Dark Forces' system of oppression and exploitation.
You were born a living soul with flesh and blood, with the responsibility to respect other life and treat your fellow man with love and kindness, and with a life-spirit provided by the Creator. Your unalienable rights are for life, liberty and property, and to respect those rights of other human beings on this planet, our home.
In an attempt to create a safe society, men elected Governments to protect and uphold your unalienable rights and your responsibilities to the Creator and your fellow man. After a while, Governments became corrupt and now we have to ask: How could Governments and other "regulatory bodies" possibly make you follow their rules and be subservient to them since your true allegiance is to your Creator? How can you serve two masters - your creator and your Government? The answer is that you cannot server two masters, therefore the Government had to create a system that tricks you into thinking you must serve them, where in fact, Governments must serve us, the people.
One of the ways Governments and other regulators have tricked you into thinking you must follow their rules, is to create for themselves an "artificial-person / corporation" who is not you, but whom the Government has fooled you into thinking is you (See Natural vs. Artificial and Trick #4). But, so as not to violate your fundamental rights, they also have provide recognition in law for another legal entity called a "natural-person" (simply meaning a human-being in the law) with which most of your fundamental rights are still intact. So when you interact with the law, you may be represented as an artificial or natural person - you choose.
This concept of an "artificial-person", a legally obligated entity, that appears to be you, but in fact is not you, is a little difficult to grasp at first, but if you follow through this site, you will understand.
Once the Government creates an "artificial-person" that simulates you (i.e. appears to be the same as you from your point of view), but is actually a contrivance of government laws and regulations -- then they've got you, so to speak. And if you fill out paperwork and sign documents as if you were this artificial-person (create contracts), then they can make you totally subservient to all their rules and regulations.
20101104
Hints at a Nov 6 False Flag Event
Coincidence or language from the future leaking back into the present? You decide.
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